Edith Roger

When Edith Roger got The Honorary Award during the Hedda Award Ceremony 2010, The Hedda jury reasoned as follows:

"Hedda's Honorary Award is not supposed to be an annual event. During the twelve years The Hedda Awards have existed, The Honorary Award has only been given out four times, most recently in 2008. This year the jury held no doubt. The award must be given out again. It goes to a versatile, original artist who, in using her special background, renewed the very traditional Norwegian direction. At the time she had already been an excellent dancer and a significant choreographer, and actually a director's assistant, too. But in 1967 she signed her first independent direction assignment, and 33 years later she ended her active career, appropriately enough withLeague of Youth. She is living proof that neither the ability to experience nor to consider change as the years go by!

The Honorary Award goes to a true renewer of Norwegian theatre: Edith Roger."

Sources:

NTO, nto.no, 28.04.2011, http://www.nto.no/pub/NTO/hedda/?aid=485#NTO

Wikipedia, no.wikipedia.org, 16.09.2011, http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Roger

• Ny Norsk Ballett - Dancer (from 1948 to )

• The Hedda Award 2010 - Honorary Hedda
• Danseinformasjonens Ærespris 2005 - Danseinformasjonens Ærespris
• Norsk kulturråds ærespris 2002 - Norsk kulturråds ærespris 2002

• The Hedda Award 2004 - Special artistic achievement, Debut of the year, Best visual design, Production of the year, Best direction, Particularly excellent performance